European Grid Infrastructure

About the European Grid Infrastructure Group

The European Grid Infrastructure EGI is based on the federation of individual National Grid Infrastructures (NGI). EGI supports a multi-disciplinary user community and is... more »
The European Grid Infrastructure EGI is based on the federation of individual National Grid Infrastructures (NGI). EGI supports a multi-disciplinary user community and is coordinated by EGI.eu, a non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam. During its first four years, the EGI will be co-funded by the EC, through the EGI-InSPIRE project.

EGI-InSPIRE (European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe) is a collaborative effort among more than 40 institutions over 30 countries. The associated grid production infrastructure, the European Grid Infrastructure, includes more than 200 sites across 50 countries offering around 55,000 CPUs, and more than 20 Petabytes of storage. The infrastructure is available to users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, achieving a sustained workload of more than 300,000 computer tasks, or jobs, every day.

The EGI-InSPIRE project will support the transition from the previous project-based system to a sustainable pan-European e-Infrastructure, by supporting ‘grids’ of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-throughput computing (HTC) resources. EGI-InSPIRE will also be ideally placed to integrate new Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) such as clouds, supercomputing networks and desktop grids, to benefit the user communities within the European Research Area. « less

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About this Group

  • Created: August 26, 2010
  • Type: Nonprofit Group
  • Members: 230
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